College of Engineering 2005 Research Day
Winners Announced

BASIC/APPLIED SCIENCE: GRADUATE

92C Countercurrent Bubble Hydrodynamics, Mixing and Mass Transfer in an Ozone Disinfection Column
by Timothy A Bartrand, Bakhtier Farouk, Charles Haas
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

173 Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Severely Plastically Deformed (SPD) Aluminum Alloys
by Christopher Hovanec, Roger Doherty, Surya Kalidindi
Materials Science and Engineering

126C Experimental and Analytical Observations on Multiple-Site Damage Behavior in Aircraft Lap Joints
by Abubaker Ahmed, Alan Lau, Tein-Min Tan, Jonathan Awerbuch
Mechanical Engineering

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: UNDERGRADUATE

338 Influence of nanodiamond additives on mechanical properties of Ni electroplated coatings
by Adrian J Gurga, Yury Gogotsi
Materials Science and Engineering

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: GRADUATE

414 Wetting of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Coatings by Polar and non-Polar Liquids
by Davide Mattia, Byong M Kim, Haim H Bau, Yury Gogotsi
Materials Science and Engineering

BUSINESS RESEARCH INITIATIVE: GRADUATE

264M Y-Carbon: Powering the New Millennium
by Ranjan K Dash, John Chmiola, Gleb Yushin, Yury Gogotsi
Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

DEAN'S AWARDS
UNDERGRADUATE

439C Mobile Mathematics Communication
by Nadya Belov, Colin Koeck, Werner Krandick, Joshua Shaffer
Computer Science

405 Trajectory Based Routing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
by Fernand S Cohen, Josh B Goldberg, Jaudelice de Oliveira
Electrical and Computer Engineering

379C RELAY SELECTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT EMPLOY USER COOPERATION
by Frank X Prihoda, advisor Athina Petropulu
Electrical and Computer Engineering

GRADUATE

395 Synthesis and characterization of mPEG-PLA prodrug micelles
by Meredith L Hans, advisor Anthony Lowman
Chemical and Biological Engineering

109 Effect of Lung Volume, Diaphragm Muscle Activation, and Posture on Kinematics
by Kathleen B Allen advisor Aladin Boriek
Mechanical Engineering

374 Probing and Locating Cancerous Tumors in Lumpectomy Samples Using Piezoelectric Fingers
by Hakki O Yegingil, Wan Y Shih, Waqas Anjum, Jeffrey Justin, Ari D Brooks, Wei-Heng Shih
Materials Science and Engineering

169 Mechanically Driven and Thermally Induced Acoustic Waves in Gases Under Normal- and Micro- Gravity Conditions
by Yiqiang Lin advisor Bakhtier Farouk
Mechanical Engineering

230 Temperature Sensitive Tunable Bragg Reflector
by Michael J Birnkrant advisor Christopher Li
Materials Science and Engineering